First post, by Ictoagh
I've been fooling around with the intel compiler lately, and ...
I'm fairly impressed. It seems to add a nice speed boost to the emulation. Basically, I'm just trying the features of the compiler using DOSBOX to get a feel for what it's capable of, so far, I've made a build for the P4, using SSE2 in vectorizable loops (There's a few in the MT32 synth sources), and also set up for parallelization, using the P4.
I'm thinking seriously about rebuilding the libraries underneath with the intel compiler, and using those.
It's not the fastest compiler in the world, though, but it produces fast code ... 😉